Sales are poor, we're talking really low I'm making about enough to cover costs at the moment. I don't want to go into figures right now just incase it gets better and I look like a winger!

Downloads wise there's been about 25k on android and 20k on iphone, web wise the applet has been hit several 100k+ times, but I've stopped tracking that as it doesn't seem to mean much. There are over 4k registered users now (as in they have an online save account) and there's been 700 odd ratings on Android, 500+ of which are 5 star.

Stats wise it sounds pretty good, guess Im just not good at converting customers yet

You've made really nice progress over the last couple of months. Last time I checked there was just the single 5 level dungeon and now there is a world to explore.

One feature that would be nice is some sort of inspection ability i.e. I see something I haven't encountered before. Is there a way I can get a description or something without waltzing right up beside it?

How have things progressed since you've completed the main engine? Is adding content easier, laborious, or just different as compared to pure coding?

Building the content is something I enjoy and I'm building tools as I go a long so it's not too labour intensive. The scariest thing is how quickly players get through the content. I spent two evenings effort on the recent content update that I released today. Within 6 hours most of that content is discovered and posted about

I'm still adding a lot of new features to the engine all the time though, so I keep my hand in code - and of course there are tonnes of bug fixes all the time.

The scariest thing is how quickly players get through the content. I spent two evenings effort on the recent content update that I released today. Within 6 hours most of that content is discovered and posted about

If you could travel this path again knowing this, would you have waited longer before releasing the game in order to have more of the content ready?

The reason I ask because I imagine that community management must consume quite a bit of time which means less time for development, content creation, etc.

Tbh, no. The community mostly only exists because they've been able to get involved in the development process - having lots of input

This seems to be the way to go recently. I can personally vouch that the rapid updates is what got me hooked on Minecraft, and now this.

I'm a bit curious though - have you ever had to back-out changes that the community responded negatively to? I'm curious how you're measuring feedback and filtering out the people who just hate change.

How are things going in the customer department? Are your loyal fans starting to cough up money yet? Are you building up to a major release (and publicity splurge) at some point, or is it all incremental improvements from here on?

Customers are coming through slowly, not massive though - I'm certainly not retiring any time soon I'm doing mostly incremental releases but I do the odd big patch (like the recent Toronega addition). However, a bit patch for me is say 4-5 days work. Incremental release can be like 2 a day.

That kinda happened before anyone really started playing. I produced a little rogue like and I wasn't really happy with the feel - then I thought about Diablo, and how much I love that and added a little town - then it just sort of snow balled.

I have plans for a couple of other games that will probably fit back in the 30 minutes slot again - but we'll see

if you can use red potions from backpack, I wish I could see the health bar from that same screen to see its effects?

suggestion for UI:perhaps in the health bar, when you get hit, it shows for a few seconds, the bar that is loss turn yellow and then disappear.(or perhaps blink red, or even better, fade out(the tiny chunk of life that you just loss) So that if I am watching it, Its easier for me to see how much is loss.

does the water that I keep finding do anything? I'd be cool to splash around in it, like in Zelda:aLttP(on the SNES anyways you could sometimes)

if I am at the barkeep Buy/Sell screen. I wish I could click outside of those selection and return to the game.

I wish I could manually reconfigure location of items in backpack? If there is a way I haven't figured it out.

I tried out wizard and warrior. Overall: I like it. It may not necessarily be my particular type of game. I did enjoy it, and bought the game for iPhone.

Keep up the good work! Ill play some more in the future!

edit edit:I've been playing it more and more. I am liking it more and more!I'm slowly becoming addicted! Also inspiring me to make a different type of RPG more accustomed to my style.

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